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... first time since school she had more than ten consecutive days off work!

The afternoon was hot and sunny so we had a walk along the prom to suss out a venue for Lesley’s birthday dinner and to sit with a beer or two. Our choice was a Brazilian barbeque restaurant, as we all felt a great need for meat. So Sunday evening we went back to town and walked along the prom to a cocktail bar for preprandial drinks. The bar, ...

Well, I have got the blue sky! When we were planning this trip it was one of the main incentives, blue sky, warm temperatures, of course good food, wine and ice cool Sam Miguel, got it all now!

Experience, we have done this sort of trip now since 2006 and we think we know it all! Fuel is easy these days as one can even use the CB (carte blue) option on fuel pumps where there is no accueil with staff. However, each company seems to have a subtlety different ...

... I insisted he shave his beard off. He looks a lot less like one of those Gibraltar apes now, thankfully.

We're were having a simple tea tonight to use up the last of the Spanish English bacon however we have had an egg crisis: we found them broken in bottom of the fridge! So it looks like we are eating out again - terrible isn't it? Before we go to look for ...

... dinners. It is still really hot here, but there is a lovely cool sea breeze.

Having embraced the Spanish practice of siesta, we decided to try the evening 'paseo' (walk) as well. Often taken around 8:00pm, this seemed particularly appropriate here because there is a very pleasant palm-lined footpath/cycle promenade at this beach. We didn't encounter any other foreigners while we were at this ...

Another day in paradise. We decided not to go to Nerja today and instead opted to stick around the Pueblo. I managed to get another painting done and we enjoyed tapas in the Plaza. We had sardines, eggplant, Serrano ham and muscles -- very flavourful, fresh ingredients. One thing we have noticed ...